Hue and Cry Poster

Hue and Cry (1947)

NR 02/01/1947 Comedy, Crime, Adventure 1h 22m
64%
User
Score
6.7/10

The Film that Begs to Differ

Overview

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

T. E. B. Clarke

Screenplay

Charles Crichton

Director

Top Billed Cast

Alastair Sim

Alastair Sim

Felix H. Wilkinson

Jack Warner

Jack Warner

Nightingale

Valerie White

Valerie White

Rhona

Jack Lambert

Jack Lambert

Ford

Harry Fowler

Harry Fowler

Joe Kirby

Douglas Barr

Douglas Barr

Alec

Stanley Escane

Stanley Escane

Roy

Ian Dawson

Ian Dawson

Norman

Gerald Fox

Gerald Fox

Dicky

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on November 10, 2022

This is one of the lesser known Ealing comedies and it has something of the Children's Film Foundation output to it too, as the youngsters cotton on to a dastardly plan to use the narrative bubbles in a children's comic to convey messages that unwittingly to the publisher and animator facilitate daring robberies. It's only when the young "Joe" (Harry Fowler) and his mates start to put two and two together, and with the help of "Felix" (Alastair Sim) they start to hone in on the kingpin - safe in the knowledge that he is close amongst them and will not go quietly if he is discovered. The humour is dark, subtle and personable, as are the efforts from Jack Warner ("Nightingale") and it is set in a wonderfully gritty post war, bombed-out London full of craters and ruins in which to set the inc...

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